Violence Workers
Violence Workers
副标题: Police Torturers and Murderers Reconstruct Brazilian Atrocities
ISBN: 9780520234475
出版社: University of California Press
出版年: 2002-11-04
页数: 314
定价: USD 24.95
装帧: Paperback
内容简介
Of the twenty-three Brazilian policemen interviewed in depth for this landmark study, fourteen were direct perpetrators of torture and murder during the three decades that included the 1964-1985 military regime. These "violence workers" and the other group of "atrocity facilitators" who had not, or claimed they had not, participated directly in the violence, help answer questions that haunt today's world: Why and how are ordinary men transformed into state torturers and murderers? How do atrocity perpetrators explain and justify their violence? What is the impact of their murderous deeds--on them, on their victims, and on society? What memories of their atrocities do they admit and which become public history?